Monday on NBC12 First at 4: ICE Director John Morton

He is the top government official at the agency at the center of one of the biggest issues facing the United States. Monday on NBC12 First at 4, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton will be my live guest.

Morton, a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, is the leader of what the ICE website describes as the second largest investigative agency in the federal government. He oversees 19,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $5 billion.

Morton took over ICE at a critical time in the agency’s role in the country. Immigration has become a hot button political issue drawing heated opinions on both sides. Opinions that have only gotten more hot with the passage of a controversial law in Arizona that gives local law enforcement additional powers to reign in illegal aliens.